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Marklund, Liza

Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund is a successful author and journalist whose crime novels are widely translated and adapted for the screen. She was born the oldest of three children in the village of Pålmark, some 25 kilometres from Piteå in the north of Sweden. She left school at the age of sixteen and moved to Piteå where she worked as a waitress and cleaner. Some years later she travelled around the w...

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Max Van Larsen

Gender: Male

A depressed, middle-aged detective with a guilty conscience who works in the New York police section for missing persons. Max Van Larsen’s wife and 13-year-old son have died in a traffic accident, and he discovers that he has not known them well enough to be able to mourn them. He is, however, consoled when he meets the cheerful author Sylvia Plotkin, and together they solve the weird cases in t...

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